Breaking Into The New Variant Of COVID B117, DPR Leadership Questions Supervision At The Airport

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JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR), Azis Syamsuddin, assessed that the supervision at the airport of residents who have just arrived from abroad is still too weak. So that it entered a new variant of the B117-UK coronavirus as found in Karawang, West Java.

"The government must be more stringent in carrying out checks at international airports. Don't let the B117 virus spread too widely", said Azis in his statement, Thursday, March 4.

Azis suspected that the new variant of the B117-UK coronavirus was brought by Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) who had just returned from Saudi Arabia.

Furthermore, Azis said, the discovery of this virus became a new homework for the government amidst the unfinished threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, he urged the government to further tighten the mobility of people from between cities in Indonesia, as well as in and out of countries.

"Policies in limiting the number and tightening of health protocols in public places, face-to-face learning system policies and restrictions on working hours", said the Golkar Party politician.

The DPR leadership in the field of Political, Legal, and Security Coordination also encouraged the central government, Regional Governments (Pemda), and the Task Force (Satgas) to handle COVID-19 to work harder to deal with the development of the new virus.

He hopes that proper handling steps can be taken to accelerate the response to the pandemic in Indonesia.

"Local governments must classify the COVID-19 pandemic conditions in their respective regions, so that testing, tracing, and treatment efforts can be carried out appropriately", he said.

Also, Azis appealed to the public to make the COVID-19 vaccination program successful by being accompanied by an improved data collection system and good socialization to the people by the government. So that the number of COVID-19 in Indonesia can further decline.